Category: Art’s Sake

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  • In the Shadows

    In the Shadows

  • Xavier Corbero by Albert Moya

    Xavier Corbero by Albert Moya

  • The Maeght Foundation

    The Maeght Foundation

    World Art Foundations (WAF TV) has the great pleasure in presenting their interview with Mr. Olivier Kaeppelin, Artistic Director of the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul de Vence, in its unique setting of Miró’s ‘Labyrinth’. Let’s check : https://www.worldartfoundations.com/f… We talked with him about the illustrious couple, Aimé and Marguerite Maeght, the ideas behind their Foundation and, while it is moving successfully into 21st century under Mr. Kaeppelin’s guidance, their philosophy remains at its heart. Our interview includes an insight into A. R. Penck’s impressive exhibition, ‘Rites de Passage’, which is ending on 18 June.

     

    Published by World Art Foundations – WAF TV – on YouTube 28 June 2017

  • Arihiro Miyake / Coppélia Chandelier

    Arihiro Miyake / Coppélia Chandelier

    Arihiro Miyake explains how his Coppélia Chandelier helped make his name as a designer in this Dezeen movie, which is part of our Design Dreams series with Dutch design brand Moooi. Japanese designer Miyake received international recognition with the launch of his Coppélia Chandelier for Moooi in 2015. Due to the popularity of the design, Moooi launched a new black version at its Milan 2018 show in April. “I have travelled many places with the lamp, like New York, Tokyo and London,” Miyake says in the video, which Dezeen filmed for Moooi in Milan and London. “It has been quite a big success and I feel like one of my dreams has come true.”

    Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/?p=1228731

  • How Art Became Active

    How Art Became Active

     

    We might think of Performance Art as something completely different to what’s usually shown in museums. We’re used to museums (like us) collecting and showing objects, but performance is live and ephemeral. It happens and then it’s gone. But more and more, we’re showing this sort of thing. In this series, we invited art historian Jacky Klein to take a close look at five different ways in which performance is found inside, and sometimes outside, the museum, so that (perhaps) it feels a little more familiar next time you encounter it.

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    Tate – Published on YouTube May 25, 2018

  • Drawing by George Condo

    Drawing by George Condo

     

    George Condo was part of the 1980s wild art scene in New York. In this video, recorded in his New York-studio, the iconic artist shares his life-long love of drawing and thoughts on his artistic expression, which he describes as “artificial realism.” ”I kind of draw like you’re walking through the forest, where you don’t really know where you’re going, and you just start from some point and randomly travel through the paper until you get to a place where you finally reach your destination.” Condo studied music theory at college, but soon realised that it was too formal and rigid for him, and that he needed an art form that would give him more freedom. However, he still approaches his art like a musician, working fast and following the rhythm of the drawing or painting without “missing any of the notes.”

    The tempo, he feels, is very important when it comes to art. Condo wants his work to contain clear references to the different artists – from Picasso to Velasquez – they’re inspired by, but with a twist. His painting or drawings are about finding a way in which one can capture a person’s humanity through a portrait – capturing not just the outside but also the inside. Moreover, Condo aims to “turn negatives into positives”, portraying “the ordinary characters that make up our lives, whether it’s the janitor or the bus driver or the school teacher or the principal or the mailman or the truck driver. These are not the glamorous people that you see on the cover of Vogue Magazine, but they are what the world is composed of. And to give them a spot in the world is what I always admired about Rembrandt to a certain degree…” “I love drawing as much as painting, so why not make your paintings from your drawings, but literally have there be no defined sort of hierarchy between the two mediums?” Condo started making “drawing-paintings”, where you can’t distinguish e.g. paint from pastel, or a line made with a paintbrush or a line drawn in from and thus making the two mediums equal: “There’s no real difference between figurative painting or abstract painting, ‘cause it’s all painting to begin with… You don’t’ have to follow any rules as a painter. If you’re making an abstract painting it doesn’t mean eventually it can’t morph into a figurative one.” When a famous art historian asked Condo what he called the form of work he did, Condo thought of the description “artificial realism”.

    Artificial realism gives the painter the opportunity to go back and paint something in a realistic way while still portraying all that which is artificial in our world. In continuation of this, he finds that now everything seems to be “artificial realism” with the fake news that is all around us: “Art is the truth, and everything else is a lie.” George Condo (b. 1957) is an American contemporary visual artist working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Condo mixes input from art history’s masters – such as Velasquez, Manet and Picasso – with elements of American Pop Art. He distorts and renews this material so that it stands out and becomes his own: a kind of strange hybrid that blurs boundaries between the comic and the tragic, the grotesque and the beautiful, the classic and the innovative.

    As part of the wild art scene in New York in the early 1980s, Condo was close to painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, and worked for Andy Warhol’s Factory, applying diamond dust to silkscreen. Condo’s work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Broad Foundation in Los Angeles, Tate Gallery in London, Centre George Pompidou in Paris and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, among others.

    He is the recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999) and the Francis J. Greenberger Award (2005).

    Condo lives and works in New York City. George Condo was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg at his studio in Soho, New York City in September 2017.

    Camera: Jakob Solbakken

    Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg

    Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2017

    Supported by Nordea-fonden

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  • The Benefits of Daily Fasting

    The Benefits of Daily Fasting

    Early rise and early outdoor activity for the best benefits from exercise.

    When we sleep, our bodies use up more energy, or fat, in order to mend, develop and restore ourselves for the coming new day. When we awake we are in a low state of ketosis, a metabolic state in which some of the body’s energy supply comes from ketone bodies in the blood, in contrast to a state of glycolysis in which blood glucose (including sugars) provide energy. Blood sugars are at optimum levels and insulin levels are way down – this is the perfect metabolic state for our bodies and we can stay in this state until we consume our first meal about 4 hours AFTER a normal daily waking.

    Provided you eat no more than 50 calories you will remain in this fasted state well into the day. Staying in this state of ketosis, along with associated low blood sugar levels has many health benefits and will reduce insulin resistance. You could have a small omelette and a coffee or tea with semi-skimmed milk and remain in ketosis until your first meal about noon.

    Morning exercise in a fasted state will reap huge benefits. Walking, steps climbing, stretching, outdoor weight training, Ti-Chi, jogging or biking, almost any continued activity will train your body to use it’s stored fats and sugars efficiently. Lifting weights in a fasted state will increase human growth hormone post-workout much greater than lifting weights with food in your belly; high levels will remain high for many hours but will drop as soon as you eat.

    Ketosis state fasting benefits will be improved further by having your last meal 4 hours or more before sleep, meaning that you should eat your daily nutritional and energy needs within a 7 hour period in the middle of the day – say between noon and 7pm.

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  • Making Art

    Making Art

    What’s Art got to do with it?

    In these posts and articles we want to explore what affect art can have in our lives when we can appreciate, enjoy and see the extra value in life, with the promise that there is so much more to living and being than we can understand, ‘I feel something ….’ is the expession and experience that the artist wants to share ….

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    What drives an artist to make art. Art is a higher form of communication, closer to emotional experience than structured application and perceived reality …..

    Make full screen to fully enjoy. These videos are from a series of interviews with artists made and filmed by Jesse Brass and The Brass Brothers Films. A beautifully edited series called Making Art on Vimeo, a great source of inspiration for emerging artists trying to find their path, and an encouragemnet to established artists who need to know they are not alone.

     

    https://vimeo.com/77781263

    Take a look at the entire series on Vimeo:  making art

  • Black Light

    Black Light

    How the ‘Master of Black’ uses non-colour to manipulate light in his artwork

    Still active at the age of 97, the French painter and sculptor Pierre Soulages is considered one of the most influential living artists. In this brief portrait, the director Barbara Anastacio is given rare access to Soulages’s studio in Paris, where he discusses his need to paint with non-traditional tools, and how his process is, quite literally, a cycle of creation and destruction, as he burns the paintings that don’t meet his expectations. He also details the principals of his famed ‘Outrenoir’ practice, in which he uses black paint to reflect and create ‘a light that is not obvious’.

    Director: Barbara Anastacio

    Website: NOWNESS

    “Pierre Soulages: Outrenoir” by Barbara Anastacio

    Published on YouTube Jan 27, 2015

  • The Modern Portrait

    The Modern Portrait

  • Joan Gardy Artigas

    Joan Gardy Artigas

    “Profession isn’t the most important thing. One’s identity, spirit, and creations are what matters”

    Private View: El Racó

    Inside the studio of Catalan ceramicist and Miró collaborator Joan Gardy-Artigas

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    Throughout his illustrious career, Catalan sculptor Joan Gardy-Artigas has worked alongside some of the leading artists of the twentieth century, from Picasso and Miró to Giacometti and Chagall. The son of artist Josep Llorens Artigas, Artigas junior began assisting Miró—a collaborator of his father’s on a number of projects, including a famous series of tiled walls. The artist has since made a career with his own ceramic and painting practice, creating stylized sculptures of human and animal forms.

    “Artigas has worked alongside some of the leading artists of the twentieth century, from Picasso and Miró to Giacometti and Chagall”

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    In a new film, Barcelona-based director Marc Puig takes us into the artist’s stunning rural studio for a tour, where he reflects back on his life and career.

    Inside the studio of Catalan ceramicist and Miró collaborator Joan Gardy-Artigas: bit.ly/2pcOSET

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  • The Walled Off Hotel

    The Walled Off Hotel

    Graffiti artist Banksy has opened a hotel in the West Bank.

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    The Walled Off Hotel features artworks exploring the Israel-Palestine conflict.